Went up to 23rd Street Brewery for lunch today. One of my friends up there is an old Mizzou fan, and he was settling in to watch the bowl game. We struck up a conversation, and he volunteered the idea that the Big 12 seems to be more stable now that Missouri has gone to the SEC. He mentioned the governor and the flirtation with the Big 10, but the fact that Mizzou fan would recognize that the Tigers may have been the destabilizing entity in the whole conference realignment process = choir of angels, proof of God, hope for all mankind.

At the family Christmas gathering, my brother in law mentioned that he had to go to Lawrence to see a chiropractor. While there, in walked the man himself, Bill Self. Now my bil is a KSU grad who has coached high school basketball for over 30 years. 5 time state champs, lots of other tourney appearances... In general a great guy from Grainfield, Ks.

As Self made his way to a chair he talked up everybody in the office before settling insight next to my bil. My bil mentioned he was a KSU guy and they talked about football and Self commented how he thought Snydz' had done a remarkable job. One that should firmly entrench him in the HoF.

The talk then turned to realignment in the conference and then to MU in particular. Self stated that according to what he read and had seen, MU wasn't going to make any more money than they had in the Big XII. They talked further and Self kept coming back to this point of no extra money for MU.

Anyway, I don't know what Self knows, nor do I know if he was just blowing smoke. But my bil was convinced Self was firm in his belief. Anyway, it was an interesting conversation that was relayed to me.

At the family Christmas gathering, my brother in law mentioned that he had to go to Lawrence to see a chiropractor. While there, in walked the man himself, Bill Self. Now my bil is a KSU grad who has coached high school basketball for over 30 years. 5 time state champs, lots of other tourney appearances... In general a great guy from Grainfield, Ks.

As Self made his way to a chair he talked up everybody in the office before settling insight next to my bil. My bil mentioned he was a KSU guy and they talked about football and Self commented how he thought Snydz' had done a remarkable job. One that should firmly entrench him in the HoF.

The talk then turned to realignment in the conference and then to MU in particular. Self stated that according to what he read and had seen, MU wasn't going to make any more money than they had in the Big XII. They talked further and Self kept coming back to this point of no extra money for MU.

Anyway, I don't know what Self knows, nor do I know if he was just blowing smoke. But my bil was convinced Self was firm in his belief. Anyway, it was an interesting conversation that was relayed to me.

At the family Christmas gathering, my brother in law mentioned that he had to go to Lawrence to see a chiropractor. While there, in walked the man himself, Bill Self. Now my bil is a KSU grad who has coached high school basketball for over 30 years. 5 time state champs, lots of other tourney appearances... In general a great guy from Grainfield, Ks.

As Self made his way to a chair he talked up everybody in the office before settling insight next to my bil. My bil mentioned he was a KSU guy and they talked about football and Self commented how he thought Snydz' had done a remarkable job. One that should firmly entrench him in the HoF.

The talk then turned to realignment in the conference and then to MU in particular. Self stated that according to what he read and had seen, MU wasn't going to make any more money than they had in the Big XII. They talked further and Self kept coming back to this point of no extra money for MU.

Anyway, I don't know what Self knows, nor do I know if he was just blowing smoke. But my bil was convinced Self was firm in his belief. Anyway, it was an interesting conversation that was relayed to me.

I'm pretty sure the SEC TV contract(s) will be up in the very near future, and I would be willing to bet that contract is going to far surpass any other conferences television contract.

At the family Christmas gathering, my brother in law mentioned that he had to go to Lawrence to see a chiropractor. While there, in walked the man himself, Bill Self. Now my bil is a KSU grad who has coached high school basketball for over 30 years. 5 time state champs, lots of other tourney appearances... In general a great guy from Grainfield, Ks.

As Self made his way to a chair he talked up everybody in the office before settling insight next to my bil. My bil mentioned he was a KSU guy and they talked about football and Self commented how he thought Snydz' had done a remarkable job. One that should firmly entrench him in the HoF.

The talk then turned to realignment in the conference and then to MU in particular. Self stated that according to what he read and had seen, MU wasn't going to make any more money than they had in the Big XII. They talked further and Self kept coming back to this point of no extra money for MU.

Anyway, I don't know what Self knows, nor do I know if he was just blowing smoke. But my bil was convinced Self was firm in his belief. Anyway, it was an interesting conversation that was relayed to me.

I don't believe the contract will be up, but I believe someone has said that because of the expansion they can redo it to some extent.

This is accurate. The SEC contract will be reworked now that the footprint has increased by 40%. I'm sure the SEC wanted Mizzou just for the prestige, but they probably wouldn't have done it with as much enthusiasm if they had to cut the same pie into two more pieces.

"That's the reason my FFL team name is TrentGreenLeadBlock. When you see this mother****er coming around the corner on a block, put your children to bed and batten down the hatch on your girl's snatch, because the same power that destroys defenders can scar the minds of the youth and simultaneously impregnate any woman within sight, live or on television."

This is accurate. The SEC contract will be reworked now that the footprint has increased by 40%. I'm sure the SEC wanted Mizzou just for the prestige, but they probably wouldn't have done it with as much enthusiasm if they had to cut the same pie into two more pieces.